High production designer, Eloise Crane Stammerjohn costume designer, Johnetta Boone sound (Dolby Digital/Datasat), Chris Duffy supervising sound editor, Mike Wilhoit re-recording mixers, Joe Barnett, Marshall Garlington special effects coordinator, David Fletcher visual effects, Crafty Apes visual effects supervisor, Chris LeDoux assistant director, Donald Murphy casting, Kim Coleman.A Madea Christmas begins with Madea accompanying her niece, Eileen, to pay a surprise visit to Eileen's daughter, Lacy, who has mysteriously informed her that she's not coming home for the holidays. Camera (color, Deluxe prints), Alexander Gruszynski editor, Maysie Hoy music, Christopher Young music supervisor, Joel C. Produced by Perry, Ozzie Areu, Matt Moore.ĭirected, written by Tyler Perry, from his play.
Running time: 105 MIN.Ī Lionsgate release of a Lionsgate and Tyler Perry Studios production. Subplots, including a half-hearted treatise on bullying and an adorable little boy (Noah Urrea) with dreams of singing in the Christmas pageant, are scattered artlessly here and there, as are bit roles for long-forgotten viral video sensations Antoine “Bed Intruder” Dodson and Kimberly “Sweet Brown” Wilkins.įilm Review: ‘Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas’
Other comic setpieces range from amiably cliched (Madea’s malaprop-heavy summary of the Book of Luke) to jaw-droppingly awful, reaching a particularly painful nadir when Larry’s ghost-themed sexual role playing causes Eileen to mistake him for a Klansman. However predisposed (or not) one might be to appreciating their signature personae, Perry and Larry’s scenes together are easily the highlights of the film, as they at least provide these shticksters with the opportunity to bounce old-timey banter off one another, rather than simply performing to the camera. (The decision to cast a black woman as the unrepentant bougie bigot who confuses her white in-laws for “the help” could have been interestingly subversive in other hands, though Perry does very little with it.) Furthermore, the corporate sponsor for the town jubilee turns out to be the very same company that built the dam that ruined the local farmlands, though this seems to matter far less to the townsfolk than the company’s insistence on secularizing the Christmas festivities, which allows Perry to throw some particularly patronizing scraps of red meat to any Bill O’Reilly devotees who may have wandered into the theater. More complications arise when Conner’s hayseed parents (Larry the Cable Guy, Kathy Najimy), arrive in town for a visit, with the whole family now enlisted to continue Lacey’s charade for the increasingly unpleasant Eileen. Also inexplicably in tow with Madea and Eileen is Lacey’s high-school boyfriend, Oliver (JR Lemon), a corporate bigwig of some kind with whom Lacey has reconnected while seeking a corporate sponsor for her school’s annual Christmas jubilee, which the local farmers rely on financially after a newly built dam decimated their crops.
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